Smart Grid. Smart Meters. AMI. Certainly no one has escaped the buzz surrounding this potentially ground-breaking technology. However, equally generating buzz is the heightened threat of attack these technologies provide. Mike Davis and a team of IOActive researchers were able to identify multiple programming errors on a series of Smart Meter platforms ranging from the inappropriate use of banned functions to protocol implementation issues. The team was able to "weaponize"
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